IDG is leading the 2026 Mexico Enterprise Survey, a World Bank study of the conditions that shape private business in Mexico. Working in coordination with the World Bank Group and in partnership with the Mexican research firm SIMO Consulting, IDG will complete 1,320 interviews with registered private firms by the end of 2026. The survey is part of the World Bank’s global Enterprise Surveys program, which collects comparable firm-level data across economies and feeds the Bank’s Business Ready (B-READY) indicators.
The survey asks businesses about the things that affect their operations day to day: access to finance, competition, infrastructure, regulation, and the obstacles that slow growth. Interviews are conducted with owners and top managers, while financial and productivity sections are handled with CFOs or accounting staff who can speak to those figures directly.
Who the survey covers
The sample is drawn from formal, registered private firms with five or more employees, and it is stratified so the results represent the wider economy across three dimensions:
- Region: five regions covering the North, Central North, Central, Mexico City, and South. The Central region and Mexico City together account for the largest share of eligible firms.
- Sector: eight sectors, four in manufacturing (food, textiles, garments, and other manufacturing) and four in services (construction, retail, hotels, and other services).
- Size: from small firms (5 to 19 employees) up to extra-large firms (more than 250).
Building a panel to track change over time
Part of the 2026 sample is a panel: firms first interviewed in Mexico’s 2023 Enterprise Survey, contacted again for this round. Re-interviewing the same firms lets researchers see how conditions have shifted for those businesses and whether reforms introduced since 2023 made a measurable difference.
From data to policy
Once interviews are complete, the data is cleaned, coded to the World Bank’s Global Codebook, and translated from Spanish to English. Participating firms receive the Country Profile, a short summary of the survey’s main results for Mexico, sent in Spanish as a thank-you for taking part. The full results feed the World Bank’s B-READY indicators and Mexico’s policy discussions, giving policymakers concrete evidence about where private-sector constraints are greatest and where reform would help most.
Read more on the official World Bank Enterprise Surveys page for Mexico 2026 (in Spanish).